Titanic to the Rescue
Next time when sailing at sea you see a large ship and they are difficult to avoid and more difficult to contact, and you are about to curse all the large ships in the world, spare a thought for the Titanic.
A voluntary organisation of world wide ships which had its genesis with the sinking of the Titanic was last month responsible for yet another rescue of sailors in distress. The organisation - AMVER - rescued of the crew of a drifting trimaran 80 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, as the photo to the left dramatically shows. The ‘Amver participating’ container ship Milan Express rescued the two sailors after the wife of one of the crew contacted the US Coast Guard.
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